The Anatomy Lesson: Unveiling the Fasciculus Medicinae is a comprehensive artistic, poetic, and scholarly response to the 1495 Fasciculus Medicinae, the first printed book with anatomical illustrations. Twenty pages of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia copy of the 1495 Fasciculus Medicinae were reproduced for this volume.

The artist, Joyce Cutler-Shaw, has been Artist-in-Residence at the School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego since 1991. The book was sparked by her invitation to participate in the 1995 Science and the Artist’s Book exhibition, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institute and the WPA.

New commentaries by invited scholars such as Katharine Park, Peter Murray Jones, and Barbara Maria Stafford provide rich and varied contexts for interpreting the artist’s work vis-à-vis the medieval woodcuts and sample pages of Latin text, reproduced full size.

Each of the ten main sections includes a four-page spread that opens to forty inches wide, and features a photogravure of Cutler-Shaw’s drawing, printed by Jon Goodman.

A hologram on the front cover features an early eighteenth-century brass lancet.

The Anatomy Lesson: Unveiling the Fasciculus Medicinae is a comprehensive artistic, poetic, and scholarly response to the 1495 Fasciculus Medicinae, the first printed book with anatomical illustrations. Twenty pages of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia copy of the 1495 Fasciculus Medicinae were reproduced for this volume.

The artist, Joyce Cutler-Shaw, has been Artist-in-Residence at the School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego since 1991. The book was sparked by her invitation to participate in the 1995 Science and the Artist’s Book exhibition, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institute and the WPA.

New commentaries by invited scholars such as Katharine Park, Peter Murray Jones, and Barbara Maria Stafford provide rich and varied contexts for interpreting the artist’s work vis-à-vis the medieval woodcuts and sample pages of Latin text, reproduced full size.

Each of the ten main sections includes a four-page spread that opens to forty inches wide, and features a photogravure of Cutler-Shaw’s drawing, printed by Jon Goodman.

A hologram on the front cover features an early eighteenth-century brass lancet.

The Anatomy Lesson: Unveiling the Fasciculus Medicinae is a comprehensive artistic, poetic, and scholarly response to the 1495 Fasciculus Medicinae, the first printed book with anatomical illustrations. Twenty pages of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia copy of the 1495 Fasciculus Medicinae were reproduced for this volume.

The artist, Joyce Cutler-Shaw, has been Artist-in-Residence at the School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego since 1991. The book was sparked by her invitation to participate in the 1995 Science and the Artist’s Book exhibition, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institute and the WPA.

New commentaries by invited scholars such as Katharine Park, Peter Murray Jones, and Barbara Maria Stafford provide rich and varied contexts for interpreting the artist’s work vis-à-vis the medieval woodcuts and sample pages of Latin text, reproduced full size.

Each of the ten main sections includes a four-page spread that opens to forty inches wide, and features a photogravure of Cutler-Shaw’s drawing, printed by Jon Goodman.

A hologram on the front cover features an early eighteenth-century brass lancet.

The Anatomy Lesson: Unveiling the Fasciculus Medicinae is a comprehensive artistic, poetic, and scholarly response to the 1495 Fasciculus Medicinae, the first printed book with anatomical illustrations. Twenty pages of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia copy of the 1495 Fasciculus Medicinae were reproduced for this volume.

The artist, Joyce Cutler-Shaw, has been Artist-in-Residence at the School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego since 1991. The book was sparked by her invitation to participate in the 1995 Science and the Artist’s Book exhibition, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institute and the WPA.

New commentaries by invited scholars such as Katharine Park, Peter Murray Jones, and Barbara Maria Stafford provide rich and varied contexts for interpreting the artist’s work vis-à-vis the medieval woodcuts and sample pages of Latin text, reproduced full size.

Each of the ten main sections includes a four-page spread that opens to forty inches wide, and features a photogravure of Cutler-Shaw’s drawing, printed by Jon Goodman.

A hologram on the front cover features an early eighteenth-century brass lancet.

The Anatomy Lesson: Unveiling the Fasciculus Medicinae is a comprehensive artistic, poetic, and scholarly response to the 1495 Fasciculus Medicinae, the first printed book with anatomical illustrations. Twenty pages of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia copy of the 1495 Fasciculus Medicinae were reproduced for this volume.

The artist, Joyce Cutler-Shaw, has been Artist-in-Residence at the School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego since 1991. The book was sparked by her invitation to participate in the 1995 Science and the Artist’s Book exhibition, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institute and the WPA.

New commentaries by invited scholars such as Katharine Park, Peter Murray Jones, and Barbara Maria Stafford provide rich and varied contexts for interpreting the artist’s work vis-à-vis the medieval woodcuts and sample pages of Latin text, reproduced full size.

Each of the ten main sections includes a four-page spread that opens to forty inches wide, and features a photogravure of Cutler-Shaw’s drawing, printed by Jon Goodman.

A hologram on the front cover features an early eighteenth-century brass lancet.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, Rare Book Collection

University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, Rare Books

University of Connecticut, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, Archives and Special Collections

University of Delaware Library, Special Collections

University of Iowa Libraries, Special Collections

University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, Special Collections

University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections

The Wellcome Library

Wellesley College, Clapp Library, Special Collections

Wesleyan University, Olin Library, Special Collections & Archives

Williams College, Chapin Library of Rare Books

Yale University, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Special Collections

Yale University, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library

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